center for american studies


video collection

VIDEO FILMS  
-Gold Fever  
-John Brown’s Holy War
-LBJ
-The Battle of the Bulge
-The Last Stand at Little Big Horn
-The Monkey Trial
-The Transcontinental Railroad
-The Zoot Suit Riots
-Truman .
-War Letters
-Woodrow Wilson
DVDs  
-Ansel Adams  
-Chicago: City of the Century .
-Reagan
-War Letters: Stories of Courage, Longing and Sacrifice.
ARTS Duration
-American painting : the eighties (Arts America) 30 min.
-Evening with the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre 148 min.
-Graffiti/post graffiti (Arts America) 30 min.
-In the mainstream – The Cleveland Quartet, part 1 (Arts America) 30 min.
-In the mainstream – The Cleveland Quartet, part 2  (Arts America) 30 min.
-John James Audubon : the birds of America (Arts America) 30 min.
-Martha Graham – Three contemporary classics 30 min.
-Navajo rugs : a collector’s view (Colores 103) 30 min.
-New York photographers (Arts America) 30 min.
-Public sculpture (Arts America) 30 min.
-Statue of Liberty – Body of iron, soul of fire 30 min.
-To fly (Arts America) 30 min.
-Winslow Homer : the nature of  the artist (Special Program) 30 min.
GEOGRAPHY Duration
-George Washington Country (Scenic America 113) 30 min.
-Texas (Portrait of America) 60 min.
-Yellowstone (Portrait of America) 25 min.
HISTORY Duration
-America : a land of immigrants : Solomon Northup’s Odyssey (Part 1) 60 min.
-America : a land of immigrants : Solomon Northup’s Odyssey (Part 2) 60 min.
-America : a land of immigrants 101 30 min.
-America : a land of immigrants 102 30 min.
-America : a land of immigrants 103 30 min.
-America : a land of immigrants 104 30 min.
-America : a land of immigrants 105 30 min.
-America : a land of immigrants 106 30 min.
-America : a land of immigrants 201 60 min.
-America : a land of immigrants 202 60 min.
-America : a land of immigrants 203 60 min.
-American History 101 – Colonial America- The beginnings 25 min.
-American History 102 – The colonial way of life 25 min.
-American History 103 – The colonial economy 25 min.
-American History 104 – Westward expansion 25 min.
-American History 105 – Negro slavery 25 min.
-American History 106 – The Civil War – A house divided 25 min.
-American History 107 – The years of reconstruction 25 min.
-American History 108 – Immigration 25 min.
-American History 109 – America becomes an industrial nation 25 min.
-American History 110 – The rise of the industrial nation 25 min.
-American History 111 – Trusts and trust busters 25 min.
-American History 112 – The Progressives 25 min.
-American History 113 The United States become a world power 25 min.
-American History 114 – World War I 25 min.
-American History 115 – The twenties 25 min.
-American History 116 The New Deal 25 min.
-American History 117 – The American people in World War II 25 min.
-Franklin D. Roosevelt : Hyde Park (American immortals) 25 min.
-Thomas Jefferson (American immortals) 30 min.
LITERATURE Duration
-Edgar Allan Poe (American author) 30 min.
-Ernest Hemingway : grace under pressure (Films for the Humanities) 55 min.
-Ernest Hemingway, the man (American author) 31 min.
-The Harlem Renaissance and beyond (American author) 31 min.
-The world of Mark Twain (American author) 55 min.
MUSIC Duration
-Alberta Hunter (Jazz at the Smithsonian) 30 min.
-Art Blakely & The Jazz Messengers (Jazz at the Smithsonian) 30 min.
-Art Farmer (Jazz at the Smithsonian) 30 min.
-Benny Carter (Jazz at the Smithsonian) 30 min.
-Blues (America’s Music) 55 min.
-Cajun country : don’t drop the potato (American patchwork, songs and stories) 60 min.
-Cajun country : don’t drop the potato-Part 2 (American Patchwork, songs and stories) 60 min.
-Folk music (America’s Music) 30 min.
-Jazz Museum (Arts America) 30 min.
-Jazz Museum, more (Arts America) 30 min.
-Jazz parades : feet don’t fail me now-Part 1 (American Patchwork) 60 min.
-Jazz parades : feet don’t fail me now –Part 2 (American Patchwork) 30 min.
-Joe Williams (Jazz at the Smithsonian) 30 min.
-Louis Armstrong –The gentle giant of jazz (American immortals)  25 min.
-Red Norvo (Jazz at the Smithsonian) 60 min.
-The land where the blues began (American Patchwork) 30 min.
RELIGION Duration
-Working for the Lord (American documents) 60 min.

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